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DUFF
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Scottish
 Scottish name derived from the Gaelic byname dùbh, DUFF means "black, dark." Compare with another form of Duff.
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English and Irish
English and Irish : variant of Duffin. The surname was taken to Ireland at the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion in the 12th century, and the original bearers of the name settled in County Galway.
Male
English
 Short form of English Duffy, DUFF means "black peace." Compare with another form of Duff.
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English
English : habitational name from places in Derbyshire and East Yorkshire, so named from Old English dūfe ‘dove’ + feld ‘open country’.
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English
English : variant of Duffield.
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a maker and seller of gloves or a nickname for a wearer of particularly fine gloves, from Middle English cuffe ‘glove’ (of uncertain origin; attested in this sense from the 14th century, with the modern meaning first in the 16th century).Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dhuibh, a variant of Mac Duibh ‘son of the black one’ (see Duff).Irish : approximate translation of Gaelic Ó DoirnÃn (see Dornan).Cornish : nickname from Cornish cuf ‘dear’, ‘kind’.
Boy/Male
Australian, British, Christian, English, Gaelic, Indian, Irish, Scottish
Baker; Swarthy; Dark; Black; Dark Faced
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English and Irish
English and Irish : variant of Duffy.
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English
English : from the Old Norse personal name Dólgfinnr, composed of the elements dólgr ‘wound’, ‘scar’Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duibhchinn (see Diffin), Ó Duibhghinn (see Deegan), or perhaps Ó DaimhÃn (see Devine).
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English
English : from Middle English dove, Old English dÅ«fe ‘dove’ (or perhaps occasionally from the Old Norse cognate dúfa), applied as a nickname for a mild and gentle person or as a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of doves. The Old English word was used as a personal name for either sex in the early Middle English period, and the surname at least in part derives from this use.Scottish : translation of Mac Calmáin (see Coleman 1).Scottish : variant of Duff.North German : nickname for a deaf or dull man, Middle Low German dÅf.David James Dove was born about 1696 in Portsmouth, England, where his father was a tailor. He arrived with his wife in Philadelphia in 1750 and in 1751 opened an academy for young ladies. He was the first person in PA who attempted to supply higher education for women.
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Scottish and English
Scottish and English : from Middle English blak(e) ‘black’ (Old English blæc, blaca), a nickname given from the earliest times to a swarthy or dark-haired man.Scottish and English : from Old English blÄc ‘pale’, ‘fair’, i.e. precisely the opposite meaning to 1, and a variant of Blake 2. Blake and Black are found more or less interchangeably in several surnames and place names.English : variant of Blanc as a Norman name. The pronunciation of the nasalized vowel gave considerable difficulty to English speakers, and its quality was often ignored.Scottish and Irish : translation of various names from Gaelic dubh ‘black’ (see Duff).Danish and Swedish : generally, probably the English and Scottish name, but in some cases perhaps a variant spelling of Blak, a nickname from blak ‘black’.In some cases, a translation of various names meaning ‘black’, for example German and Jewish Schwarz.
Boy/Male
Celtic
Dark-skinned.
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English
English : from Middle English dufhus ‘dovecote’, applied as a topographic name or as a metonymic occupational name for a dove keeper.Scottish : habitational name from a place in Moray called Duffus.
Boy/Male
Irish Gaelic Celtic
Surname.
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English
English : variant of Duffield.
Boy/Male
Scottish Gaelic Celtic
Black.
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Altered spelling of French Duffet, variant of Dufay (see Duffee).English
Altered spelling of French Duffet, variant of Dufay (see Duffee).English : nickname from Middle English d(o)uve, dofe ‘dove’ + hed ‘head’ or fote ‘foot’.
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n.
A stupid, awkward, inefficient person.
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A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer.
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A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze.
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A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff.
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Dough or paste.
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See Duffel.
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A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat.